Youtube Black Screen - Firefox

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Hi guys, just a quick one, whenever i go to play a video on youtube all that comes up is a black rectangle :confused: I have tried reinstalling flash, and not quite sure what to do now, would appreciate if someone could help me out! Thanks
 
Also when i right click the black rectable it says in greyed out writing 'Movie not loaded...' if thats any help
 
Hi, thanks for the quick reply, but no thats not causing the problem, ive disabled it and tried, still a black rectangle, youtube works on chrome, just not on firefox it seems
 
Reinstalling Firefox worked for me. Crude but effective. I'm sure there was a thread about this a couple of weeks ago perhaps try searching the answer might be in there.
 
Cheers for the suggestions guys, but ive installed Firefox 4 now, and all seems fine, and it looks like a nice visual upgrade too!
 
I had this happen yesterday as well. I ended up having to create a new firefox profile and move all my bookmarks etc over.

If you launch firefox with the -p switch it launches with the profile manager and you can make a new one.
 
Might sound silly but try refreshing the page a few times. Works for me in Chrome (don't use FF). This is also caused by AdBlock.
 
I tried most things I could think of, re-installing firefox, re-installing flash, running firefox in safe mode (with all add ons disabled) and manually uninstalling suspect add-ons in normal mode, none of which fixed it.

One thing that did make it work is swithcing to inprivate browsing (which as I understand it simulates using a different profile). Even now, I have all the same add ons installed in my new profile and it works perfectly, if I switch back to my old profile, just a black screen.

Very odd indeed.
 
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